John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is a theatre director and actor. Joachim F. Tillinger was born in Tabriz, Iran. His father was German Jewish and his mother was Protestant. Tillinger was raised in England, where he was first exposed to the theatre. He spent his early years on Broadway as an actor, appearing in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (standby "Freddie", 1968), Othello ("Roderigo", 1970), Hay Fever ("Sandy Tyrell", 1970), and The Changing Room ("Colin Jagger", 1973). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia